My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

To be honest, the skeleton motif took me by surprise here in Mexico and then I stayed with it ⏤ creating about a dozen paintings so far. Cer...

The highlight of all our recent traveling was the incredible art we were exposed to.  Experiencing the high art of the Renaissance inspired ...

  Travel has become so complicated. Today’s world is one of peril. My earliest memory of flying was when I was about four years old. I was w...

Life is a kaleidoscope of sensual surprises.  During travel, I leave familiar surroundings to engage in the unknown and see with fresh e...

We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemi...

I am glad I had my paints, camera and pen along with me. Oh, and my laptop. Two pair of shoes was enough. So was two pair of pants, fo...

The fog I hoped for never arrived during my month in Venice. I kissed the city goodbye—with light so brilliant it seemed the canals were...

Van Gogh, Garden at the Asylum at Sant-Remy_ Each day has its own incredible uniqueness. I find it best to live in THE DREAM consci...

My first week of one month in Venice seems to have flown by quickly. Sometimes I want to grab the moments and make time stand still. I f...

In the early evening, my brother and I walked up to the long line of people at the Icelandair ticket desk at Dulles International Airport o...

Too late to turn back now. I have bought my tickets, except for my return. A thousand small, cautious voices voices tell me to s...

Recently an art collector called to give her credit card information so that she could finish paying for a painting I made in Venice, Italy...

  One of my favorite subjects to paint and photograph is water. Why? Mostly because it is fluid and reflective. The water molecule i...

At the Banteay Srey Butterfly Centre, near Siem Reap, Cambodia I had not intended to leave the United States in mid-September and t...

View of Vernazza, Cinqueterra, Italy India is on the horizon. Tomorrow, I leave Rome, Italy to fly through the night and arrive in...

Sometimes, when we are hiking in challenging terrain, we stumble, but get up to keep going. We are thrilled to be traveling,...